#capitulation
Business news story punchline:
"We are adjusting our ______ to account for current #MarketPressures and #FinancialClimate ...."
Pick a term to fill in the blank:
#Prices , #Earnings , #Workforce , #Investments , #Costs , #Locations , #Availablity , #Dividends , #Forecasts , #BuyBacks , etcetera...
Translation:
We can't use words like #tarrifs , #taxes , #capitulation , #blackmail , #cowardice , and #NutJob , to describe Uncle Donnie's #fascist #politics , to say just how fucked we are.
@EUCommission How about a picture of Von Der Leyen kneeling on some dead Palestinian children as she bends to kiss Trump's ass? #Gaza #Genocide #Capitulation
I absolutely support #Harvard telling #Trump, #MAGA, and #Republicans #gofuckyourself, and absolutely not surprised that the rumor of a $500 million dollar settlement probably originated with the #WhiteHouse.
My reaction to that rumor stands, though. #Capitulation would be #enshittification.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yhwb4flopeavzkwbybtojo2s/post/3lvkc5535xc2k
The reward for capitulating to Trump is that Trump extorts even more from you. I don’t know how people fail to grasp this. Even when you cooperate, you lose.
“Trump, however, has also repeatedly hinted at a side deal with Skydance after a New York Post report indicated the company would allocate between $15 million and $20 million for such ads once it acquires Paramount.
“We did a deal for about $16 million plus $16 million—or maybe more than that in advertising," he told reporters earlier this month. “So it’s a combination of 16 plus 16 ... So it’s like $32 to maybe $35 million. I think that’s what they did.””
#kakistocracy #capitulation #complicity
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-touts-secret-paramount-side-deal-after-colbert-ouster/
Unpaywalled: https://archive.ph/uRfBs
Did you know, President & CEO of CBS, which just bribed potus by settling a case and canceled Stephen Colbert's show, is named, not making this up, George Cheeks?
Sure they were bullied as a kid, but as CEO, George Cheeks laying down for fascists makes me theoretically ('cause violence is not a good answer) want to clap those cheeks (metaphorically slap him).
Stop returning Paramount & subsidiaries' (like CBS) calls. They wither w/no one to work for them.
Meanwhile, from the 3rd-World fascist land formerly known as "America", with things like free press, Constitution, etc...
CBS Takes a knee and surrenders all principles
> Paramount Agrees To Pay Trump $16 Million In Outrageous Settlement
> “Paramount just paid Trump a bribe for merger approval."
No doubt Edward R Murrow is rolling over in his grave.
I was impressed by the number of #American #flags at our #protest
International observers you are entitled to dislike the #flag but domestically we must wrest the #symbol back from #MAGA
#Capitulation and #complacency towards what #bigots falsely claim as theirs is not acceptable
Sofia Matson: At #Columbia Graduation Event, Student Voices Rose: This year’s Class Day ceremony included a referendum on the university’s #capitulation to the #tRump administration—delivered in boos.
#resistance #freespeech #university
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/at-columbia-graduation-event-student
Karen Dunn and Other Top #Lawyers Depart Paul Weiss to Start Firm. They are leaving a few months after Paul Weiss cut a deal with the White House to avoid an executive order that would have restricted its business.#lawfedi #legalresearch #democracy #law #constitution #litigation #legal #politics #corruption #capitulation #maga #trump https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/business/karen-dunn-paul-weiss-partners.html
“US caves, asks Yemen to stop attacking its ships – Trump claims Yemen ‘capitulated’”
by Skwawkbox @skwawkbox @UKLabour
@palestine
@israel
“Ansar Allah/Oman say it has made no agreement about Israeli/Israel-bound shipping and will continue anti-genocide blockade”
#Capitulation #Appeasement #Disgrace
Lawyers for #Trump & #Paramount, the parent company of #CBSNews, are set to begin mediation on Wednesday over a lawsuit brought by Trump that accuses “#60Minutes” of *deceptively* [accurately] editing an interview with his 2024 Democratic opponent, #KamalaHarris.
#law #journalism #ethics #FourthEstate #BillOwens #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #FreePress #democracy #autocracy #dictatorship #censorship #StateMedia #propaganda
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/business/media/paramount-cbs-60-minutes-trump-lawsuit.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=4F0A1033-7C72-43C9-B834-781E1210163C
#Legal experts have dismissed that suit as baseless & far-fetched [ya don’t say], & #BillOwens said in Feb that he would not apologize as part of any prospective settlement. Many #journalists at #CBSNews — the former home of #WalterCronkite & #MikeWallace — believe that a settlement would amount to a #capitulation to #Trump over what they consider standard-issue gripes about editorial judgment.
From relatively modest beginnings in 1888 in New York with four lawyers, Willkie Farr has bowed to a poisonous, treasonous, racist dictator. What a waste. What a shame.
@DrSprockets North Carolina Rep. Chuck Edwards is very happy to let the Trump administration tell him what the recommendations of the task force are, regardless of what the task force - of which Edwards is a member - has concluded independently.
#NorthCarolina #FEMA #Capitulation #RepublicanDeathCult
https://www.theassemblync.com/politics/fema-trump-task-force-delay-edwards/
Now that the law firms gave him “a lot of money” (no doubt a reference to the dollar value of legal fees that law firms he bullied agreed to provide him), he will “use” them how he wants.
Capitulation's a bitch!
'Implore you': Grandkids of famed judge tell firm that caved to Trump to stop using name
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-law-firms-2671663055/
From relatively modest beginnings in 1888 in New York with four lawyers, Willkie Farr has bowed to a poisonous, treasonous, racist dictator. What a waste. What a shame.
i remind myself of #fascist #spain under #franco and look at spain today
doesn't mean spain is utopia today
doesn't mean "it's going to be ok, relax"
it means getting better is real
but:
1. we have a lot fucking work to do
2. there is a lot of fucking suffering ahead of us
3. do not accept #pessimism #cynicism nor #capitulation
as long as we *fight* we can right this rotten ship
biggest ally of #maga:
lazy indifference
get off your fucking asses and fight